Contruction Data

Technical Data

Size:

1180 t (max)

Length:

62 m

Beam:

10 m

Draft:

4 m

Armament:

1 x 10,5 cm; 2 x 3,7 cm AA; 10 x 2 cm AA

Performance:

2750 shp, 16 kn

History

In the late 1930s, France ordered 18 ships of the British Flower class type, 6 of those to be build in French shipyards. After theInvasion of France, those incomplete ships were captured by the Germans and four of them were continued under German control.

PA-3
(ex Sabre
) was also commissioned 10.11.1943 and served in the 15th VP-Flotilla until it was sunk on 15.06.1944 by RAFbombers in Le Havre.